左旋肉碱修饰的壳聚糖-硬脂酸协载槲皮素口服紫杉醇纳米胶束的制备、表征及在体肠循环研究

目的 制备左旋肉碱修饰的壳聚糖-硬脂酸（LC-SA/CS-SA）纳米胶束，包载紫杉醇（PTX）且协载槲皮素，考察胶束特性，并以大鼠在体肠循环评估给药系统对PTX口服吸收的促进作用。方法 将硬脂酸（SA）通过酰胺化反应接枝于壳聚糖（CS），形成共聚物CS-SA；采用核磁共振H谱、红外光谱鉴定产物结构；以PTX为主药，槲皮素为辅药，采用激光粒径分析、Zeta电位分析和HPLC分析分别考察了胶束的粒径、Zeta电位、载药量、包封率；透射电子显微镜观察胶束形貌；芘荧光探针法测定LC-SA/CS-SA胶束的临界胶束浓度（critical micelle concentration，CMC）；透析袋法考察胶束的体外释放行为；大鼠在体肠吸收实验评估载药胶束的促吸收作用。结果 红外与核磁结果表明SA通过酰胺键接枝于CS；协载槲皮素的LC-SA/CS-SA载PTX胶束呈类球形，粒径为（148.3±1.7）nm，多分散系数（PDI）为0.16±0.07，Zeta电位为（24.600±0.167）mV，CMC为14.31 μg/mL；体外释放结果表明，与市售紫杉醇注射剂相比，协载槲皮素的LC-SA/CS-SA载PTX胶束、LC-SA/CS-SA载PTX胶束具有明显缓释效应；大鼠在体肠吸收实验表明，协载槲皮素的LC-SA/CS-SA胶束对载药PTX的胃肠吸收具有显著促进作用。结论 构建的协载槲皮素的LC-SA/CS-SA载PTX胶束性能优良，促进了PTX的大鼠肠吸收，具有增强药物口服吸收潜力。     

In vitro and in vivo synergistic efficacy of ceritinib combined with programmed cell death ligand‐1 inhibitor in anaplastic lymphoma kinase‐rearranged non‐small‐cell lung cancer

Both ceritinib (CER) and programmed cell death (PD)‐1/PD ligand‐1 (PD‐L1) have brought significant breakthroughs for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)‐rearranged non‐small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the overall clinical efficacy of either CER or PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitor monotherapy has been limited to a large extent. In addition, the antitumor effect of combined CER and PD‐L1 inhibitor in ALK‐rearranged NSCLC is not fully understood. In H2228 cells, we examined the tumor killing effect of CER plus PD‐L1 inhibitor in vitro by quantitative RT‐PCR, flow cytometry, ELISA, western blot analysis, PBMC coculture system, and plasmid and transfection experiments. A Ba/F3 (EML4‐ALK‐WT) xenograft mouse model was also utilized to further evaluate the synergistic anticancer effects of CER and PD‐L1 inhibitor in vivo. The coculture system of PBMCs with H2228 cells promotes the expression of PD‐L1 and phospho‐ERK, and combined treatments facilitate lymphocyte proliferation and activation, inhibit PD‐L1 expression, and enhance lymphocyte cytotoxicity and cell death. In the in vivo NSCLC xenograft model, the volumes of tumors treated with CER and PD‐L1 inhibitor in combination were significantly smaller than those treated with CER or PD‐L1 alone. The relative tumor growth inhibitions were 84.9%, 20.0%, and 91.9% for CER, PD‐L1 inhibitor, and CER plus PD‐L1 groups, respectively. Ceritinib could synergize with PD‐1/PD‐L1 blockade to yield enhanced antitumor responses along with favorable tolerability of adverse effects. Ceritinib and PD‐L1 inhibitor combined produced a synergistic antineoplastic efficacy in vitro and in vivo, which provides a key insight and proof of principle for evaluating CER plus PD‐L1 blockade as combination therapy in clinical therapeutic practice.     

Statins use and its impact in EGFR‐TKIs resistance to prolong the survival of lung cancer patients: A Cancer registry cohort study in Taiwan

Statins have been shown to be a beneficial treatment as chemotherapy and target therapy for lung cancer. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of statins in combination with epidermal growth factor receptor‐tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy for the resistance and mortality of lung cancer patients. A population‐based cohort study was conducted using the Taiwan Cancer Registry database. From January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2012, in total 792 non‐statins and 41 statins users who had undergone EGFR‐TKIs treatment were included in this study. All patients were monitored until the event of death or when changed to another therapy. Kaplan‐Meier estimators and Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to calculate overall survival. We found that the mortality was significantly lower in patients in the statins group compared with patients in the non‐statins group (4‐y cumulative mortality, 77.3%; 95% confidence interval (CI), 36.6%‐81.4% vs. 85.5%; 95% CI, 78.5%‐98%; P = .004). Statin use was associated with a reduced risk of death in patients the group who had tumor sizes <3 cm (hazard ratio [HR], 0.51, 95% CI, 0.29‐0.89) and for patients in the group who had CCI scores <3 (HR, 0.6; 95% CI, 0.41‐0.88; P = .009). In our study, statins were found to be associated with prolonged survival time in patients with lung cancer who were treated with EGFR‐TKIs and played a synergistic anticancer role.     

Effects of the Fusarium toxin zearalenone (ZEA) and/or deoxynivalenol (DON) on the serum IgA,IgG and IgM levels in mice

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the Fusarium toxin zearalenone (ZEA) and/or deoxynivalenol (DON) on the serum IgA, IgG and IgM levels in mice. In our study, 360 healthy adult female mice were randomly assigned to nine groups for a 12-day study. Mice of all groups were given a 4-day continuous intraperitoneal injection with different concentrations of ZEA alone, DON alone and the mixture of ZEA and DON, individually. Blood samples were collected on days 0, 3, 5, 8 and 12 of the experiment. The experiment results showed that all the experimental groups could cause the dysregulation of the immunoglobulin, thus affecting the humoral immune of mice. The mixture groups, especially in the group with higher concentrations of ZEA and DON (Group D2Z2), showed more obvious effect on the dysregulation of the immunoglobulin.     

增氧型纳米递送系统用于光动力治疗的研究进展

光动力治疗是一种新型非侵入性治疗手段,其原理是光敏剂经激光触发后将能量转移至氧气,生成具有细胞毒性的单线态氧,从而诱导肿瘤细胞发生凋亡或坏死。作为一种氧依赖性治疗方式,光动力治疗的抗肿瘤效果明显受限于实体瘤的乏氧微环境。因此,逆转并改善肿瘤组织的缺氧情况可显著增强光动力治疗效果。本文重点讨论纳米递送系统介导的肿瘤增氧策略的研究进展,包括氧气直接递送策略、酶催化产氧递送策略、响应型材料原位产氧递送策略和微生物体供氧递送策略,以提高光动力治疗抗肿瘤效果,为进一步研究增氧型光动力治疗纳米给药系统提供了新思路和新方案。     

Inferring the effect of genomic variation in the new era of genomics

Accurate and detailed understanding of the effects of variants in the coding and noncoding regions of the genome is the next big challenge in the new genomic era of personalized medicine, especially to tackle newer findings of genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of diseases. This is necessary to resolve the gene‐variant–disease relationship, the pathogenic variant spectrum of genes, pathogenic variants with variable clinical consequences, and multiloci diseases. In turn, this will facilitate patient recruitment for relevant clinical trials. In this review, we describe the trends in research at the intersection of basic and clinical genomics aiming to (a) overcome molecular diagnostic challenges and increase the clinical utility of next‐generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, (b) elucidate variants associated with disease, (c) determine overall genomic complexity including epistasis, complex inheritance patterns such as “synergistic heterozygosity,” digenic/multigenic inheritance, modifier effect, and rare variant load. We describe the newly emerging field of integrated functional genomics, in vivo or in vitro large‐scale functional approaches, statistical bioinformatics algorithms that support NGS genomics data to interpret variants for timely clinical diagnostics and disease management. Thus, facilitating the discovery of new therapeutic or biomarker options, and their roles in the future of personalized medicine.     

Effective Enzyme Coimmobilization and Synergistic Catalysis on Hierarchically Porous Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Microbeads Fabricated Via Droplet‐Based Microfluidics

In this paper, a novel and robust droplet‐based microfluidic method to fabricate poly(ε‐caprolactone)/silica (PCL/SiO₂) hybrid microbeads with hierarchically porous architecture is described and their performance as multienzyme carriers for cascade catalysis is further investigated in detail. In addition to the precise control on size and monodispersity of PCL/SiO₂ microbeads enabled by the microfluidic method, the presence of ammonia as a catalyst for the hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethylorthosilicate makes it possible to manipulate the competition between sol–gel process and solvent extraction and thus adjust the surface porosity of hybrid microbeads, which eliminates the use of porogens/templates and also the complicated post‐treatment. Isothiocyanate‐immunoglobulin G/cyanine 3‐bovine serum albumin (FITC‐IgG/Cy3‐BSA) and superoxide dismutase/chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (SOD/CAT) are coimmobilized, respectively onto hierarchically porous PCL/SiO₂ hybrid microbeads via either physical adsorption or covalent binding. Fluorescence intensity of coimmobilized FITC‐IgG/Cy3‐BSA proves that the proteins/enzymes immobilization amount via covalent binding is much higher than physical adsorption. The enhanced enzymatic activity, total antioxidant capacity, and reusability assay reveal that coimmobilized SOD/CAT exhibits better performance compared with the mono‐immobilized ones, mainly due to their mutual synergistic effect. The excellent results achieved in the work indicate that hierarchically porous PCL/SiO₂ hybrid microbeads are very promising carriers for multienzymatic catalysis.     

中药"显效理论"或有助于阐释并弘扬中药特色优势

该文归纳出中药"显效理论",即中药通过"众多显效形式(显效型)的单靶点叠加作用、多靶点协同作用及毒性分散效应"发挥药效并削弱自身毒性。一味中药可含有约1 000种成分,一种成分口服进入体内后又可产生约100种代谢产物。无数化学成分及其无数体内代谢产物中的众多显效形式可共同发挥"集团军式作用"。在药物分子少、靶点分子多的情况下,中药不同种的显效型分子可相继与靶点分子结合,发生叠加作用,当"靶点充分占位"时药效始启动。既有浓度上的叠加作用又有时间段先后的叠加作用,这使得药效得以持久。显效型呈现药效叠加和毒性分散,源于不同显效形式分子结构之间药效基团相同而毒性基团不完全相同。"毒性分散效应"适于对无毒中药而不适于对有毒中药的解释。显效理论揭示中药可以众多化学成分及众多代谢产物参与发挥药效过程,包括叠加作用、协同作用及毒性分散效应,可有助于阐释和弘扬中药特色优势。今后需研究/确证的问题:中药药效物质基础及其作用机制是怎样构成的?多数中药为什么毒性小?体现中药特色优势的中药"显效理论"如何在新药研发中应用?     

丹参与红花配伍机制的系统生物学分析

目的:应用系统生物学方法模拟分析丹红注射液中丹参与红花配伍的分子机制。方法:采用TCMGene DIT和Agilent literature search(ALS)结合搜索方式,挖掘丹参、红花各自作用的蛋白,在BIND,Bio GRID等数据库中查询蛋白间关联,分别构建丹参、红花及丹红注射液蛋白相互作用网络,应用Merge程序中的difference和intersection功能比较网络间异同。结果:采用intersection分析得丹参和红花共有的高连接区蛋白网络含934个蛋白,经cluster ONE方法提取出P0.05的高连接区蛋白子网络4个,Bi NGO插件的基因本位论聚类分析表明,其主要与RNA代谢,核因子kappa B(nuclear factor kappa B,NF-κB)级联反应,脂质代谢,Rho蛋白及小GTP酶调节4类生物学途径相关。将丹红注射液蛋白相互作用网络与丹参、红花共有高连接区蛋白网络进行difference分析,得由1 431个蛋白构成的差异网络,其主要影响细胞增殖、迁移和自噬等。结论:本研究采用系统生物学方法模拟丹参和红花的配伍机制,其可能主要在RNA代谢,NF-κB级联反应以及细胞增殖、迁移和自噬等生物学途径上协同发挥防治疾病的作用。     

Phenotype-dependent alteration of pathways and networks reveals a pure synergistic mechanism for compounds treating mouse cerebral ischemia

Aim:

Our previous studies have showed that ursodeoxycholic acid (UA) and jasminoidin (JA) effectively reduce cerebral infarct volume in mice. In this study we explored the pure synergistic mechanism of these compounds in treatment of mouse cerebral ischemia, which was defined as synergistic actions specific for phenotype variations after excluding interference from ineffective compounds.

Methods:

Mice with focal cerebral ischemia were treated with UA, JA or a combination JA and UA (JU). Concha margaritifera (CM) was taken as ineffective compound. Cerebral infarct volume of the mice was determined, and the hippocampi were taken for microarray analysis. Particular signaling pathways and biological functions were enriched based on differentially expressed genes, and corresponding networks were constructed through Ingenuity Pathway Analysis.

Results:

In phenotype analysis, UA, JA, and JU significantly reduced the ischemic infarct volume with JU being superior to UA or JA alone, while CM was ineffective. As a result, 4 pathways enriched in CM were excluded. Core pathways in the phenotype-positive groups (UA or JA) were involved in neuronal homeostasis and neuropathology. JU-contributing pathways included all UA-contributing and the majority (71.7%) of JA-contributing pathways, and 10 new core pathways whose effects included inflammatory immunity, apoptosis and nervous system development. The functions of JU group included all functions of JA group, the majority (93.1%) of UA-contributing functions, and 3 new core functions, which focused on physiological system development and function.

Conclusion:

The pure synergism between UA and JA underlies 10 new core pathways and 3 new core functions, which are involved in inflammation, immune responses, apoptosis and nervous system development.